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• Entrepreneurial Culture: A Look Into the New General Course at ITMO

  …e making it for. My goal, first and foremost, was to work with the students to understand the social value of every solution to a technical task.” Igor Kuprienko explains that he based his approach to the course around the case of a Russia-EU cross-border cooperation program, where the social significance of a project is especially important. Three student t…

  26.12.2018

• HAKORA: Building a Business in the Field of AR

  …v: We chose to focus on B2B: it is more relevant for our cause, as it lets us work with serious cases. VR technologies are often used in entertainment, the games industry, for instance. Most educational cases are bound to some particular place and have a high level of localization. At the same time, we have a technology that can be spread throughout the world and isn…

  26.12.2018

• ITMO University Awards Its First Academic Degrees

  …st a year. Today, it is only possible to defend a thesis at either the Supreme Certification Commission's thesis board or at the new thesis boards of particular educational institutions. The Supreme Certification Commission's thesis boards in the subject areas in which the new thesis boards are yet to be opened will operate only till September 1, 2019. Yuri Mat…

  25.12.2018

• Head of ITMO's Femtomedicine Lab Olga Smolyanskaya on Applications of Terahertz Radiation in Medicine and Biology

  … labs from different Russian cities: Moscow (the Lomonosov Moscow State University), Tomsk (Tomsk State University), St. Petersburg (ITMO University), and Nizhny Novgorod (the Institute for Physics of Microstructures of the Russian Academy of Sciences). MSU professor Alexander Shkurinov stepped in as the head of this project aimed at examining biological tissues, flu…

  25.12.2018

• New Year Charity Events You Can Participate In

  … 2. Blood donation The blood donation center of the First Pavlov State Medical University of St. Petersburg looks for donors for patients of the Raisa Gorbacheva Memorial Institute of Children Hematology and Transplantation. This is the only clinic in Russia that performs bone marrow transplantation. The center is located at 19-53 Lev Tolstoy Street, not …

  24.12.2018

• New Year's Gifts Russian Style

  … New Year’s,” my grandma would say, heading to the store. The people who have it the worst are doctors, teachers, and distant friends, who are destined to end up with mountains of chocolates or perfume (an option I never understood; because how would you possibly know their favorite smell?). If you’re thinking about what to get for your Russian friends, conside…

  24.12.2018

• How to Survive the Holidays If You’re a Grinch

  …o in parks and on the streets. Of course, some of your friends (should the fate be so cruel to you as to give you outgoing nincompoops as friends) will still want to socialize inside, but you’re experienced, you find the way to get out of those traps if you feel you did too much talking for one week. This bliss lasts until one fateful day in December, when you…

  21.12.2018

• Mind Maps, Open Spaces, and Cooking Contests: ITMO Staff Visit UK’s Oxford Brookes University

  …Oxford Brookes University began in 1865 as the Oxford School of Art. Back then it took up a single room on the first floor of the Taylor Institution at Oxford. Today, it is one of the top-25 universities in the UK and one of the world’s top-50 universities according to QS World University Rankings 2018. “Oxford Brookes is one of the biggest of the UK’s so-called…

  21.12.2018

• ITMO Students' Facial Recognition System Wins 'Best Creative Solution' at Fintech Cup

  …All you have to do is to direct a camera to a cardholder’s face, then the application recognizes it and transmits the data to the server. The neural network checks the face against the database and approves or rejects the transaction. The main advantage of the new method is that it protects users’ personal data such as their card and phone number. The idea is easi…

  21.12.2018

• ITMO Launches New Master’s Program ‘Bioeconomics and Resource Management’

  …ountries can boast significant experience in the implementation of educational programs focused on green economy and sustainable development. In Finland, the Natural Resources Institute (LUKE) has established the Boreal Green Bioeconomy program. Finland itself has remained a major player in the field of Bioeconomy thanks to its abundance of natural and human resource…

  20.12.2018